Literacy

The Power of Family Conversation - Harvard Education Letter May/June 2008

Writing Assessment for the Youngest Writers

• Blackburn-Cramp Developmental Writing Scale

• The Writing Site -Scoring Tutorial

• The Writing Site - Exemplars by Grade and Topic

• NWREL Beginning Writer's Continuum (K-2)

Inspiring Writing Sites

• Teaching that Makes Sense

• Writing Fix - Northern Nevada Writing Project

Word Work

• Working with Words - a "Making Words" applet fun, but with some quirks

• Technology Working with Words - video of two teachers using IT to help students improve word choice (UK)

Readability Applets

• Readability Statistics

• Readability Test Tool - for URLs

• Edit Central